Cinemacraft HD encoder contains specialized filter and bitrate adjustment features to generate, with minimal effort, the highest quality H.264/AVC streams for Blu-ray production. Sophisticated image magnification, realtime split-screen comparison and segment re-encoding functions, provide additional quality control toolsets to accurately decipher and resolve the most complex issues and guarantee exceptional results.
This is your chance to vote for the best audio products and projects of the past year. Beginning on page 66 are five pages of nominee descriptions. Please take the time to read this information before voting, and then vote in the categories in which you are most qualified. Your ballot must be returned no later than October 1, 2004.
Audio-Technica ATH-M20 headphones: These pro monitor headphones feature a low-profile, closed-back design that delivers exceptional clarity and isolation. Rich bass response and extended high end come from 40mm drivers, each with a neodymium magnet structure and copper-clad aluminum wire voicecoils. Features: adjustable/cushioned comfort headband, 1/8-inch stereo plug and snap-on 1/4-inch adapter, ultraflexible 10-foot coiled cable and 30 to 20k Hz frequency response.
Sennheiser HD650 headphones: The audiophile HD 650 open, dynamic headphone design was developed from the award-winning Sennheiser HD 600, with improved materials for even better sound reproduction. Its 10 to 39,500 Hz response offers listeners expressiveness and emotion while maintaining precise, lifelike reproduction to satisfy the most demanding listener.
SPL Surround Monitor Controller: This analog volume control/switching matrix for system-independent 5.1 and stereo monitoring is designed to provide only the necessary functions with excellent audio quality. The SMC offers a cost-effective speaker/source-management solution for essentially any audio application, including surround and stereo production; DVD-V, DVD-A, SACD and DTS authoring; film/video post, video/game creation; and A/V and multimedia production.
TerraSonde Digital Audio Toolbox: The Digital Audio Toolbox provides a complete set of digital audio test, troubleshooting and utilities in an affordable handheld device. Functions include transparency test, bitstream analyzer, lock tests, bitscope, latency test, jitter meter, clock and sample counter, distortion meter, digital signal generator, digital cable tester, level meter, sample rate converter and Sony 9-pin tester.
Apogee Rosetta 800: The Rosetta 800 offers eight channels of Apogee AD/DA conversion with a multitude of connectivity options and core Apogee features such as SoftLimit, UV22HR and Intelliclock dual-stage clocking. With an X Series expansion card installed, the Rosetta 800 makes a direct connection to Pro Tools or any FireWire-enabled computer, providing compatibility with virtually any audio production environment for pro and project studios alike.
Dolby DP563 With Pro Logic II: The DP563 encoder puts program material with up to five channels into either Dolby Surround or Pro Logic II formats for 2-channel analog or digital applications, including television broadcasts, radio, commercials, video games, CDs and VHS tapes. The DP563 features digital I/O, a pre-processing stage to premix 5.1 material for Dolby Surround or Pro Logic II encoding, individual channel trims, output gain control, output limiter and metadata control.
Prism ADA-8 with DSD interface: The Prism Sound ADA-8 multichannel AD/DA converter range adds a DSD interface module compatible with the multi-coaxial standard DSD format, along with the Cat-5 24-channel SuperMAC format. The new module allows DSD masters to be printed direct from any PCM format.
Architectural Acoustics ICS 4200: Designed for permanent installs, the ICS 4200 industrial power amp features four independent, 200W amplifier channels in a compact, fan-cooled two-rackspace chassis. The ICS 4200 can supply maximum output power to both low-impedance (4 and 8 ohm) and high-impedance (70-volt) loads simultaneously in single-channel or 2-channel pairs. Channels A and B or channels C and D can be operated in low or high impedance or bridged mode.
Hot House Model One Thousand: Fully differential from input to output and utilizing a split-dual toroidal power supply, this radical new design uses intelligent output device technology to yield a transparent, low-distortion, high-fidelity, yet bulletproof pro amp. It sidesteps sonically degrading, traditional external thermal bias and protection circuits for the benefits of pure Class-A operation without the drawbacks, providing excellent timbral and spatial detail, effortless transients and precise, deep LF response.
SPL GainStation 1: This compact, single-channel unit has two separately controllable preamp stages, a transistor and a tube preamp stage. Optimal gain points can easily be determined for each stage and combined, providing flexible sound tailoring for mics and instruments. The fully discrete Class-A circuitry of the GainStation 1 operates on a 60V rail. The feature set includes peak and FET limiters and switchable input impedance.
SSL XLogic 4-Channel SuperPre: The XLogic Mic Amp provides four of the legendary XL 9000 K Series SuperPre preamps in a single-rackspace unit with optional remote control. Designed to work stand-alone, remote-controlled or directly from a suitably configured SSL XL9000 console, the XLogic SuperPre puts the acclaimed quality of these world-renowned preamps right next to the source to be captured.
DPA Microphone A/S 4088 cardioid microphone headband: Specifically designed for use in feedback-prone environments, this adjustable headworn mic is small and light weight with a miniature boom that attaches to the headband frame, capturing both ears for a secure, comfortable fit. Its uncompromising sound quality and high-SPL capabilities make it the perfect choice for pros requiring clarity, realism and increased gain before feedback.
Audio-Technica AT3060: The AT3060 delivers warm, classic tube sound with a hand-selected, individually tested and aged tube and a large-diaphragm cardioid condenser element providing high sensitivity, smooth sound and low noise. A shock-mounted tube assembly dampens mechanically coupled vibrations. The AT3060 operates on 48V phantom power, has a 50 to 16k Hz response and comes with the AT8458 shock-mount.
Neumann TLM 127: This large-diaphragm studio condenser mic has omni and cardioid patterns, although an optional power supply adds remote-control switching between five directional characteristics: omni, wide cardioid, cardioid, hypercardioid and figure-8. The mic also features a 14dB attenuation switch and a two-position highpass filter switch for a -3dB cut at 15 Hz or 100 Hz.
Telefunken Ela M12: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the original C-12 microphone, Telefunken North America offers the Ela M12. Each system is handcrafted in the U.S. using the original Austrian blueprints and meticulously duplicating the original C-12 specifications. The Telefunken Ela M12 features a TK-12 capsule with nine polar patterns, T14 transformer and NOS 6072 tube.
AKG WMS 4000: This wireless system offers a 120dB dynamic range and 35 to 20,000 Hz response. Its unique frequency search and management scheme makes setup and operation simple and reliable, and a Smartbattery system delivers 12 hours of operation from each charge. A full range of available accessories can customize a WMS 4000 system for any application.
Community M12: This compact, rugged glass-composite monitor offers clean sightlines for the audience and the camera. Specially molded channels and cable clips bring the speaker cables out of the back or either side for easy positioning. The M12 has a 12-inch woofer and a 2-inch exit HF driver on a molded one-piece asymmetrical horn with a 90 pattern at the top and 40 at the bottom, allowing full-range monitor output close-up or at a distance.
SLS RLA/2: This compact ribbon line array is designed for medium to small venues. Its light weight (60 pounds per module) and small size, along with the convenient rigging, make it perfect for permanent installations, corporate events production or anywhere a large imposing speaker system is prohibited. Each (LS8800) module of the RLA/2 Ribbon Line Array has two 8-inch high-powered cone drivers and one SLS PRD1000 proprietary push/pull neodymium ribbon driver.
Genelec 7073A subwoofer: The 7073A active subwoofer offers powerful and precise bass reproduction for large stereo or surround installs. Its 19Hz LF cut-off and 124dB peak capabilities are sufficient to handle the most demanding high-SPL applications. The 7073A features four 250W amps, one for each one its four 12-inch drivers. Driver-overload protection and power-on signal muting are included, as is a built-in 6.1 bass manager.
SSL XLogic Multichannel Compressor: This two-rackspace 6-channel compressor uses classic SSL center-compressor design elements within a SuperAnalogue design topology. This brings the dual benefits of spectacular surround audio performance with a universally acclaimed compressor characteristic.
TC Electronic Reverb 4000: Reverb 4000 is a true stereo reverb that includes emulations of the classics and algorithms from its predecessors: System 6000 and the M5000. Features include instant front panel access for live use, 44.1 to 96kHz sample rates and 24-bit processing, AES/EBU, TosLink, S/PDIF, ADAT, analog inputs and outputs, and USB controlled via a Mac or PC.
Antares Filter: Filter lets composers, remixers and engineers harmonically shape their tracks with surgical precision or animate them with almost limitless tempo-synched rhythmic effects. With four true stereo multimode filters, powerful modulation capabilities and features specifically targeted at rhythmic, groove-based music composition, Filter provides the power to create dynamic effects that range from subtle to extreme.
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